After making a romantic ballet tutu for my final project this year at uni i decided to continue and develop this throughout the holidays. This gives me a bit more creative ground to work from, what decoration i want to use, inspiration etc. Hopefully i have learnt from my mistakes made last time and should be a far quicker process as i have previously done it.
Inspiration:
The inspiration for my costume is from the Birmingham Royal Ballet 2012 version of Beauty and the Beast.
I wish to make a dress for Belle using a romantic tutu style. i really like the colourings of the ballet costumes and the fluting around the bottom of the tutu. I assume they have used chiffon or a silk crepe as the fabric is kind of crinkled however as it is for a sample piece and being a student i cannot afford to have 5 layers of chiffon.
i had an amazing shopping trip to Goldhawk Road in London to pick my fabrics and had so much choice so it was hard to narrow it down. i found a wonderful polyester chiffon which has the same floaty properties of silk chiffon but 1/4 of the price along with this i got a pewter/ purple/ greenish colour silk dupion for the bodice and matched the purple colouring with lilac tulle to go underneath. i really like the colour combination and the peach colour of the skirt with the dupion takes the costume in a different direction but still keeps the same palette as i wanted.
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